Summoning the Holy Sword

The flickering flames above the torches illuminated the dark corridor. The white-haired young lady sauntered in quietly, her eyes half-closed like she was on a mental journey. Her footsteps echoed, and in the darkness where the radiance couldn’t reach, pairs of red eyes gazed at their prey with greed and murderous intent. These hunters enveloped in black crawled up the wall silently, slowly approaching their prey. The young lady didn’t seem to notice that she was in a precarious situation. She muttered under her breath, continued to saunter along the corridor, scanning the broken stone sculptures and activated mechanisms from time to time. At this moment, the silent hunters were ready. They widened their ferocious mouths, revealing their razor-sharp fangs, like the blades of assassins waiting to strike a critical blow at an opportune time.

“They are destroyed here too…”

At this moment, the young lady murmured and moved her right arm slightly.

“———!”

A subtle draught of air blew across the corridor, swaying the young lady’s hair slightly. But at the next moment, blood sprayed in streams like raindrops as limbs of shredded corpses pitter-pattered on the floor. In the blink of an eye, the corridor restored its silence. If it weren’t for the amputated limbs, it would be hard for anyone to believe that creatures existed here earlier on.

Karin ignored the chunks of flesh on the floor, raising her right arm with a steel handle in hand. On one side were four to five, black and white button-like mechanisms. Karin’s slender fingers pressed the buttons and shortly after, a blade shot out through the top of the handle, revealing a slim, exquisite blade engraved with mysterious inscriptions. No matter from which angle, it didn’t look like a battle sword at all. Rhode was curious of how she would fight because she had human-like attributes. Her offensive and defensive values were low too, similar to the Spirit Bird. Moreover, with this ornate sword that had significantly greater value than just practicality, Rhode would believe that she was the weakest among the holy sword spirits if she wasn’t the officially recognized forth seat.

But now after witnessing her skills, he discovered that she had her ways in the body of a human. The slim sword in her hand wasn’t an ordinary one at all. According to his observations, the sword was made with thousands upon thousands of fine threads that were thinner than spiderwebs. Unless one reached Rhode’s realm, it would be impossible for one to detect their presence. Not only that, but the threads were also incredibly tough and exceptionally sharp. Karin had also engraved mystical runes on the blade. Even though the threads seemed harmless, they could unleash incomparable lethality with the flow of spiritual powers. It could slash through defensive spiritual spells due to the Order inscriptions carved on the blade.

After being aware of her battle strength, Rhode lamented that magic technologies indeed had the best production capability. Karin was weak, so weak that Anne could thrash her. But with this sword in her hand, not even Gracier and Madaras could defeat her. Order inscriptions appeared only in the late stages of the game, belonging to the top category in forged inscription. Just as the name suggested, it could unleash the power of Order. Besides, as Order inscriptions were the materialization of Order, after Order inscriptions were activated, its effects were ranked among the highest priority.

Such a formidable strength complemented with countless, almost-transparent threads became a deadly combination for Karin. This was why the other holy sword spirits couldn’t retaliate against her. Even though they had unique abilities, Gracier and Madaras would still be second in priority in the face of the Order inscriptions. In other words, Gracier and Madaras could only use their abilities in battle after the Order inscriptions were activated by Karin and this applied for others too. No one would feel great having Karin controlling the battle as soon as it started. Karin completely relied on the handle buttons to control the threads, her battle style based entirely on the high-tech weapon. Moreover, it was impressive for a human like her to reach this impressive height.

“Fourth Big Sister is amazing to achieve such formidable strength through matching some low-level Order inscriptions. This isn’t easily achievable by anyone! Hehehe. Even the four arrogant legendary generals will die horrible deaths before you!”

“Yes, everything is wrong. Christie isn’t my daughter, Karin…”

Rhode could tolerate being mistaken as her brother, but it was a totally different matter for him to be treated as her father. He quickly explained Christie’s background and clarified the situation with Karin. After hearing his explanation, Karin’s indifferent reaction seemed as though she didn’t feel like she said anything wrong.

“I see, Your Majesty… I thought that Her Highness is the child of you and Madam Christie.”

“Why do you think so?”

Rhode asked curiously. Karin said.

“Because the dragon soul power is too powerful and not anyone could withstand it. So it is impossible for an ordinary body to be impregnated.”

I see…

Rhode finally understood why. No wonder the Creator Dragon Souls were basically the inheritance of powers and couldn’t bear the next generation like humans. For female dragon soul heirs like the Judgment Dragon, Ruling Dragon, and Light Dragon, they couldn’t be pregnant if the man couldn’t withstand their dragon soul powers. On the other hand, a male dragon soul heir like the Dark Dragon had undead creatures as his subjects so it was impossible to have children.

Rhode had thought about this for a while now because after such a long time, none of the women were impregnated by him. He had even suspected that something was wrong with his body after transmigrating to this world… But now it seemed like it wasn’t his problem. Instead, the truth was that his dragon soul powers were too powerful that none of his women could withstand it.

Since this was the case, it wasn’t hard to explain why Karin treated Christie as his child. She must have seen the other ‘Christie’ when she was alive in the past, so it wasn’t strange that she had such thoughts. But…

Rhode suddenly recalled that Marlene had also awakened as a Deity Warden. According to Karin’s theory, did it mean that if he continued his way… Marlene might get pregnant?

Forget it, there’s no point in thinking about that now.

Rhode shook his head, while Karin gazed at the uncertain Christie with knitted brows.

How strange. I sensed some similar aura from her but they don’t have any blood relations at all… Madam Christie, what exactly is going on?

Boom!

At this moment, a deep explosion boomed. The floor began to shake and the torches on the wall flickered. In an instant, the entire world fell into complete darkness.

“Your Majesty.”

Karin said, her voice unprecedentedly determined.

“Yes, I understand.”

Rhode stood to his feet. Shortly after, Canary lit up a flare and it formed a dazzling fire ring that enveloped everyone. Not only Rhode, but Gracier and Madaras also put on a stern expression and clutched their daggers. Celia lifted her sword, bursting with sacred flames. Under the holy radiance, the surrounding darkness faded away as though they were retreating.

“I didn’t expect Chaos to reach this place. It seems like we were too naive…”

“———!”

All of a sudden, the surrounding darkness coalesced, transforming into creatures who pounced on them!